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The number 17 crops up in several places in the VMs, notably on f57v, where it is the number of characters repeating around the 3rd. circle (counting circles from the centre). If any one page of the VMs cries out to be a way in to the cipher, this must be it.

A Caution

"Students who have approached the Voynich text from the point of view of the professional cryptanalyst have been led on at first by a deceptive surface appearance of simplicity, only to bog down sooner or later in an exasperating quagmire of paradoxes and enigmas that reveal themselves one by one as the analysis proceeds."
- Mary d'Imperio